TESCOS throwing away food

Drunkstar

chuckley wrote: »

considering homeless people eat out of bins that are contaminated with god knows what, sum out of date cookies aint gonna harm anyone.

I was homeless, and find that very insulting.

Anyway.

When I got a room in a homeless shelter (ran by the SallyAm) we used to get food delivered from a local shop (I think Tesco or Sainsburys) when it was close to running out of date and they didnt think they could sell it. One week however we got a load of mints that had passed the use by and the entire shelters population had God awful squits the next 2 days (really, 3 bog rolls in 2 days is an impressive ammount to go through).

After then they stopped sending the stuff.

Pound

KennyVader wrote: »

All the supermarkets I shop in (Asda, Tesco, Sainsbury etc).

Isn't it "Sainsbury's"? :rolleyes:

Optimist

Anybody who objects to the waste could become Fregans they raid the bins for thrown out food, some I believe live quite well on it

http://freegan.org.uk/

Tribulation

Most places throw away food and most don't let the staff purchase out of date / damaged stock for the simple reason it's so open to abuse.

You want a joint of beef and work at Tesco, just make sure it isn't on view, then when it gets reduced, make sure your there and get it cheap.

Many years ago (27) I worked in a supermarket (not Tesco) and exactly the same rules were in force then. They had their own staff canteen that when I first started, had damaged stock etc sold (cakes, pies, biscuits etc from broken boxes etc) and they had to stop this, because people were deliberately breaking the packaging of items in the warehouse that they wanted in the canteen.

The problem with bakery's reducing items is that once it gets popular, you get loads of people simply refusing to buy at the price everyone else pays, choosing instead to hang around for ages when they know items are about to be reduced. Once this amount of people grows to a certain amount, it makes business sence to simply throw away the bread. If they're reducing a loaf from £1 to 20p to try and recoup some money from items that haven't sold, that's one thing. If customers who would usually pay £1 are deliberately waiting for items to be sold at a loss, that's another thing altogether.

DCFC79

Tribulation wrote: »

The problem with bakery's reducing items is that once it gets popular, you get loads of people simply refusing to buy at the price everyone else pays, choosing instead to hang around for ages when they know items are about to be reduced. Once this amount of people grows to a certain amount, it makes business sence to simply throw away the bread. If they're reducing a loaf from £1 to 20p to try and recoup some money from items that haven't sold, that's one thing. If customers who would usually pay £1 are deliberately waiting for items to be sold at a loss, that's another thing altogether.

this might explain what we see at work, they know the items will be reduced so they "hang around" to wait for them to be reduced but the fact that they dont understand is that we dont have t reduce the items(applies to my store) for example i could be reducing the food going out of date but then i could be asked to do something else like go on a checkout and the reductions don't get finished

robin_banks

Drunkstar wrote: »

I was homeless, and find that very insulting.

Anyway.

When I got a room in a homeless shelter (ran by the SallyAm) we used to get food delivered from a local shop (I think Tesco or Sainsburys) when it was close to running out of date and they didnt think they could sell it. One week however we got a load of mints that had passed the use by and the entire shelters population had God awful squits the next 2 days (really, 3 bog rolls in 2 days is an impressive ammount to go through).

After then they stopped sending the stuff.

Did they send you the bog roll ?

Grade_A_Reject

I remember being an a McDonalds a few years ago where the policy was that "breakfasts" were served til 10:30am. As soon as the clock hit 10:30 the manager announced "breakfasts are finished" and scooped all the ones that had already been prepared off the rack into a bin bag to dump in the skip at the back.

Caroline73_2

Optimist wrote: »

Anybody who objects to the waste could become Fregans they raid the bins for thrown out food, some I believe live quite well on it

http://freegan.org.uk/

I watched a freegan family on wife swap. Can't say I had much time for them. Pretended they didn't want to be part of the consumerist world or get paid for work or pay tax, but quite happily took the school place for their son and used NHS.

pulliptears

Many years ago I worked for Iceland, and I suppose like many inner city towns we had an old homeless man who frequented the bins at the back of the store.
The manager was a lovely bloke, and any fresh produce going out of date he would leave in a little box by the bin for the old man, he wouldnt dream of crushing anything.

Easter time in store was fab because we could eat the crushed, broken chocolate eggs. We used to keep them below the tills and munch on them lol

Drunkstar

robin_banks wrote: »

Did they send you the bog roll ?

Wish they did.